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Some hospitals still make and give you an ink footprint of your newly born, so…  When new baby comes home, wouldn’t it be nice to display the footprint images that come home too? You could also create a baby footprint poem to express all those bubbling emotions that often keep you alert for those first couple of days. Then, perhaps when all the excitement has died down, you may even have time to think of creating a baby footprint graphic or two to play around with; and make some simple and meaningful design as a memento of these always-to-be-remembered early days.

Casting Images in Cyber-Stone Makes More Memory-Sense
One thing to be aware of – with all your feelings, images and memories so vivid and fresh, the notion that these may slowly fade seem too unbelievable (Aaahh yes! – those timeless qualities of loving feelings!). Yet life ebbs away and every parent will slowly find the effects of time erasing - even re-writing the past! Some memories really are worth the effort to embed and occasionally refresh within your mind; - and maybe also within the household for all to see. It’s so easy nowadays to just display them in a baby footprint frame using a readily available kit pack.

Become an Amateur Photographer or Film Director for the Day!
Alternatively and equally importantly, just take lots of photos, especially videos of your new addition – those cute little hands and feet, curling fingers and toes that will grow so quickly, beautifully adorned with tiny ruby red nails. If you don’t have a video camera, you’ll probably be amazed to hear about
The Flip video - so small, so cheap, so neat,
with built in USB to plug straight to your computer - CNN reporters even use them! Anyway… More ideas:

- Try to get some snaps of the lines on the hand, especially if you haven’t made an ink or color handprint – you never know when you might be really grateful for that!
- Scan or load them to your computer and back up these precious images. You can so easily capture them and even
- Start adding a tiny foot or hand graphic to your email NOW – (proud parent that you are!); or LATER for family creativity and craft sessions using free graphics software readily available on the internet.

YES - WE PARENTS CAN TOO!

Baby Footprints Were Birth Records

Footprint images were originally always taken by the hospitals. They were used as a means of identifying your baby, since each child has their own unique set of footprints. These prints, be they of feet, hands (or fingers), encapsulate the essence of your child, one absolutely unique individual with his or her very own personality. It really is such a fulfilling image – it is right that we should be proud to keep and display such a special and graphic memory.

Although I already have covered these topics at some length elsewhere on this and related sites, over the next few days and weeks, I’ll be posting more on combining these two family creativity activities of
-        expressing and catching your emotions in poems, and
-        using baby imprint graphics to support and adorn your poetic puns

However puny you may think your efforts are likely to be now, with some simple graphic wizardry, we’ll soon craft a masterpiece of a family heirloom!
Maybe nothing to Barragg about, but, well, – YES WE CAN!

(Some days later - 2009.03.22: ) So now we have created our mini series of these 3 posts to inspire and give some tips on creating baby footprint graphics and composing poems to combine into a family keepsake:
1.    Expressing Graphic Emotions For the Times (this post)
2.    Baby Footprint Poetry and Graphics Masterpieces
3.    Encapsulate Your Emotions in a Baby Footprint Poem